The feature interview this week is with the blogger they call the Egyptian Sandmonkey, who tells us how he managed to poke a hole in the entire Muslim world’s anti-cartoon violence binge by proving the dreaded Cartoons of Death had in fact already been published in Egypt last year, with no visible evidence of Muslim Rage (TM).
Laurence Simon succumbs to Jihadi pressure and begins quoting large chunks of the Holy Quran. But is there a method in his madness? And Meryl Yourish, in "On Second Thought" has some thought about the Holocaust, humour and International Eat an Animal for PETA Day.In Blog News, the cartoon theme is maintained, although there is an inevitable detour to speculation over whether it is in fact wabbit season or lawyer season, and speculation noted in James Lilek’s excellent Screedblog over whether the Vice-President supposed “hunting accident” was actually a politically motivated “hit”. In the opinion of this Podcast, the answer to that is…no. There’s an easy test you can apply if you think Dick Cheney wants you dead. Are you dead? If not, then he doesn’t. Yet.
Weirdo Aussie leftoid cartoonist Michael Leunig gets his pointy little head caught in the wringer of the cartoon kefuffle without even trying. A guy draws a cartoon suggesting Israelis are Nazis, and you’d think h’ed done something objectionable or something! Sheesh. Anyway, after a series of blunders, evasions, demands for apologies and the direct intervention of God, the man with even less ability to actually draw anything recogniseable than Ted Rall, appears to have wound up with his own fatwa, as an unwitting (how ironically true THAT word is) subject of Muslim Rage (TM). And the fascinating thing is, no one can work out why.
Former Shire Network News guest, Europe-based Danish-American blogger Erik Svane of No Pasaran, together with Arthur Wneir from the French equivalent of Protest Warrior go head to head with Muslim Rage (TM) on the boulevards of Gay Paris, and as the video clearly demonstrates, hi-jinks ensue.
The anti-Islamist tune “It’s In the Koran” has been chucked off most mainstream internet servers, but it’s still available from it’s creator, Patrick Henry, and of course the New York Times of the right-leaning blogosphere, Little Green Footballs. Patrick Henry vigoroulsy defends himself against the charge of being anti-Islam.
Should Al Gore be cgarged with sedition for being paid a large sum of money to address an audience in Saudi Arabia and tell them that Muslims have been indiscriminately rounded up in the United States? Ben Shapiro says yes! The Islamic Thinkers Society would probably say no, but they’re too busy ripping up American flags on the streets of New York while shoulting Islamic religious slogans at passers-by. What was that about indiscriminate rounding up of Muslims again Al?
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